QUOTE(koji188 @ Feb 18 2020, 11:44 PM)
I think this whole Snapdragon, Exynos chip superiority complex is blown out of proportion. I was like most users here. I bought the S10+. Battery wasn't great so I started scouring on forums to try to get it better. Found out I had an inferior chip, the infamous Exynos. Fast forward a few months later found a buyer, sold it and got the Note 10+. This time surprise surprise battery life was great. Great would be over exaggerating but it was way better than my S10+. I could easily get through a day of medium to high usage with about 20-30% left when i get home, where as my S10+ would've been dead few hours before I got home.
Fast forward a couple of months again (a few weeks ago) I got bored of the Note 10+ and put it up for sale. A guy with the Asus ROG Phone 2 texted me wanting to swap. I thought why not, considering all the good things I've heard about the Snapdragon and knowing it has 6000 mAh battery it must be a powerhouse. I decided to give it a go.
F*#$ me did I regret it.
It's not that the phone wasnt a powerhouse, it was. I heard so many good things about the SD processor that I imagined that I would see a night and day difference between those 2 when in fact, I couldn't. Sure the high refresh screen made everything smoother but that's about it. People boasted about getting amazing battery life. For me, I got equally great battery life from the Exynos Note 10+. To me there were no significant difference in terms of performance for MY day to day use. Im sure for the diehards out there who look at benchmarks and test scores there is a difference. But for the average consumer like me, you won't see any difference. I miss my note 10+. It was an amazing phone that I gave up cause I was swayed by the hype of Snapdragon. Don't be me. Don't be stupid.
Yes, indeed. Most people would just read the number without understanding what it translate into.
Samsung got into a big hole when ARM Cortex A76 and A77 introduction increased performance by a huge margin. Originally Samsung was planning to catch onto Apple A series by going custom big core. You can only say its half done since they really got good number on single core. It showed the big core is doing something but multi core score sucks which could point to thermal throttling presumably. They even swapped out two big cores to Cortex A75 for 9820 and it gained some performance compared to 9810. You could say that it is finally the end of the road for them with Exynos 990. It will be the final custom design from Samsung.
Qualcomm has stopped designing its own custom core. They still named it Kyro xxx but in reality, its just the reference design from ARM, like A76 or A77. HiSilicon Kirin also used reference design. There will be no major difference between all of them except the GPU and NPU. Adreno is still slightly superior to Mali which Samsung and HiSilicon used. You will have to wait for Samsung to release RDNA GPU for their SoC next year.
Feb 18 2020, 11:19 AM
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